In the USA, more and more schools, high schools and universities are starting to give up classic textbooks schools in favor of iPad tablets that serve as a multifunctional educational tool for any student. Replacing the classic paper with the digital screen of the iPad tablet helps students and pupils to have better performances in the educational environment, as ACU Connected tells us, a program that in the last 3 years has helped to implement tablets in universities. Apparently, students who use iPad tablets to mark their courses have 25% better results than those who use the classic school textbooks.
In one study, students who annotated text on their iPads scored 25% higher on questions regarding information transfer than their paper-based peers. In a separate project covering iPad usage patterns, two researchers studying ACU's first all-digital class discovered that the iPad promotes "learning moments" and helps students make more efficient use of their time. Grad students working in an online program reported a 95% satisfaction rate for online iPad-based coursework.
The educational program was developed at the Abilene Christian University and already other universities in the USA are interested in implementing it in their own institutions. The tablet is used by students not only at school but also at home to write their homework or to look for information on the Internet related to the subjects they study at school, and the Apple device makes their work enormously easier. Of course, the implementation of iPad tablets in universities is not cheap, but in the USA educational institutions have enough money to treat their students properly.
